The call command has this functionality built in. To quote the help for call: Substitution of batch parameters (%n) has been enhanced. You can now use the following optional syntax: %~1 – expands %1 removing any surrounding quotes (“) Here is a primitive example: @echo off setlocal set mystring=”this is some quoted text” echo mystring=%mystring% … Read more
There is no equivalent, but you can write your own function. I would split the problem into two parts. Convert the hex number to decimal. Convert the decimal number to ASCII. Converting from hex to decimal is simple by set “myHex=4A” set /a decimal=0x%myHex% Converting a number to an ASCII is more tricky, it depends … Read more
I guess you have your css code in a database & you want to render a php file as a CSS. If that is the case… In your html page: <html> <head> <!- head elements (Meta, title, etc) –> <!– Link your php/css file –> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13201451/style.php” media=”screen”> <head> Then, within style.php file: <?php … Read more
You should use readfile(): readfile(“/path/to/file”); This will read the file and send it to the browser in one command. This is essentially the same as: echo file_get_contents(“/path/to/file”); except that file_get_contents() may cause the script to crash for large files, while readfile() won’t.
Little-known feature: The redirection operator can go anywhere on the line. >>file.txt echo 2
del and ErrorLevel? The del command does not set the ErrorLevel as long as the given arguments are valid, it even resets the ErrorLevel to 0 in such cases (at least for Windows 7). del modifies the ErrorLevel only in case an invalid switch is provided (del /X sets ErrorLevel to 1), no arguments are … Read more
<?php echo ‘<div> <h3><a href=”#”>First</a></h3> <div>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</div> </div> <div>’; ?> Just put it in single quotes.
The most compatible way of doing this is using tput to discover the right sequences to send to the terminal: bold=$(tput bold) normal=$(tput sgr0) then you can use the variables $bold and $normal to format things: echo “this is ${bold}bold${normal} but this isn’t” gives this is bold but this isn’t
Be careful when you convert back and forth with boolean, the manual says: A boolean TRUE value is converted to the string “1”. Boolean FALSE is converted to “” (the empty string). This allows conversion back and forth between boolean and string values. So you need to do a: echo (int)$local_rates_file_exists.”<br>”;
Use the column command: column -t -s’ ‘ filename